January 26, 2024
Emma's place - Amelia Stone - student hall at university
Published by Gary McCallum at January 26, 2024
Categories

Emma’s Place, Part 2

At the front desk I asked the concierge if she had seen Amelia. The concierge furrowed her brow and narrowed her eyes. “Amelia? Amelia? I don’t recall anyone named Amelia.” The concierge must have been new, to not know Amelia, although I could have sworn she was an old hand. “What’s the full name?”
Do you like it?
10 Read more
January 23, 2024
outside view of a university with green lawn and blue sky - Emma's place, part 1
Published by Gary McCallum at January 23, 2024
Categories

Emma’s Place, Part 1

On my way, I thought I heard them talking about me. As I neared the table they stopped talking. Zoey looked guilty. Zoey always looked guilty. When I sat down they stared at me with – oh, I don’t know – sorrow, pity: something like that. In response I opened my hands palms up, and said, “What?” as I looked from one to the other.
Do you like it?
10 Read more
January 19, 2024
Mondays - I hate Mondays... image with woman stretching, mug upside down
Published by Kylie Petrovich at January 19, 2024
Categories

Mondays

Here they call them palmetto bugs but they’re just cockroaches, really. Normally, I would have murdered the tiny intruder but on this morning, on this particular day, I awoke with a newfound appreciation for life: for any and all life.
Do you like it?
3 Read more
January 17, 2024
Short story cover image - cave in the forest, text reads: anatomy of memory part 2 - fiction - Urmi Chakravorty
Published by Urmi Chakravorty at January 17, 2024
Categories

Anatomy of a Memory, Part 2

But the highlight of the event was the momentous meeting between Luna Lyngdoh and Meban Tsangpa, a Samanera or novice monk. A woke, computer-trained graduate, he had been inducted into the monastery as a trainee. He followed many of the cardinal religious precepts but had not yet attained higher ordination which would make him a Bhikkhu or a full-fledged monk. 
Do you like it?
6 Read more
January 16, 2024
wooded trail surrounded by trees - text on cover reads Anatomy of a Memory Part 1 - fiction - Urmi Chakravorty
Published by Urmi Chakravorty at January 16, 2024
Categories

The Anatomy of a Memory, Part 1

Meghalaya in monsoon — the perfect time to explore and embrace the beauty of the Sacred Woods. Luna smiled to herself as she recalled this much-loved refrain from her days of childhood and youth. She walked past the moss-slickened stones, boulders flecked with the chartreuse lichen, stopping to admire the white coral mushrooms that were so famous here.
Do you like it?
8 Read more
January 14, 2024
Traveling Back in Time with Outlander
Published by Lynn Aprill at January 14, 2024
Categories

Traveling Back in Time with Outlander

The email from British Airways popped up just as my sister and I arrived at Glasgow International Friday night before our flights home: “We're really sorry that your upcoming flights have been canceled.” A bonus day in Edinburgh? I knew just what I’d do.
Do you like it?
6 Read more
January 13, 2024
Late at night - you wanted money - lit match on fiction story cover
Published by Ammanda Selethia Moore at January 13, 2024
Categories

The Night You Wanted Money

I couldn’t understand why you kept calling our parents, the phone ringing repeatedly before Dad silenced it. “He wants money,” Dad whispered knowingly to Mom. I was too young to understand that you’d done this all before: drunk texts and calls, expectations of payment, always late at night.
Do you like it?
1 Read more
January 9, 2024
Things I wish I had said - image cover for "closing chapter on friendship"
Published by Farrah Lucia at January 9, 2024
Categories

Things I Wish I Had Said: Closing Chapter on Friendship

We had been friends for over twenty-five years. More than a quarter of a century. I don’t know why I feel the need to emphasise the length of time we’d known each other, as if the more time invested the deeper the friendship. There is perhaps a strong correlation but no causation between length of knowing and love.
Do you like it?
1 Read more
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576777879808182
Resize text-+=